After working in corporate communications for years, Tim’s boss encouraged him to pursue a careerin comedy, “or at least something other than corporate communications.” So in 1998, he beganstudying improv under Amy Poehler at the UCB Theater. He performed with Amy on the ComedyCentral series Upright Citizen’s Brigade and later, Saturday Night Live. Amy summed up Tim’scomedic talent: “He should consider a job in corporate communications.”

Tim went on to appear regularly on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, and to write for The Late Showwith David Letterman. But it wasn’t until The New Yorker magazine’s Shouts & Murmurs rejectedhis essay “The Very First Christmas Newsletter” from Jesus’ mother Mary that he finally knew he hadarrived.

Although not a real U.S. Senator, Tim improvised the role of Sen. Beekins (R‐AK) in the TV commercialFilibuster, earning the Silver Medal Mark Award despite a poor voting record on the environment.Comedy Central selected the short film series he wrote and produced for IBM, Art of the Sale as a“Staff Favorite,” which was cited in Forbes.com in January 2007 as the example of the “JonStewartizing” of corporate communications.

Tim collaborated with The New York Times’ Bob Tedeschi to write, produce and host a comedy showfor WSHU affiliate of National Public Radio. He has hosted events with President George H. W. Bush,Academy Award winning composers Stephen Schwartz and Alan Menken, and Nobel Peace Prizelaureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu. He hosted a panel of Hollywood screenwriters on Capitol Hill forU.S. Congregational Staffers, and served on an entertainment panel at The White House.

He's performed PowerPoint parodies at corporate events from Las Vegas to Sydney, has collaboratedon a TV pilot with Jim Gaffigan, performed with Greg Giraldo and studied under Tom Purcell, headwriter for The Colbert Report. Letterman’s talent coordinator Eddie Brill calls Tim "Extremely clever,"and he’s been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Chicago Sun‐Times.

Tim has worked as a consultant at Accenture, an account executive at Xerox, as a vice president atInterpublic Group, and as executive producer and host of IBM’s series “The Future of…” He holds anMBA from McCombs Graduate School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. He’s alsoserved a short stint for an unnamed employer in corporate communications.